2.11.2012

App icon design

At Moonbot Studios, we generally are not the kind of artists who pigeonhole colleagues, artists, or simply have ONE role or task. Being a storyteller, storyboard artist, character designer, illustrator, concept artist and art director, I feel strongly that a story, product, app, film, book... whatever medium you tell a story, can be packaged better if a core team has a lot to do with the overall design. I'm not a graphic designer by trade, but I definitely have flexed that muscle my entire life, and consider that to be part of my artistic bag of tricks, and being a primary story artist, character designer, and art director on Morris Lessmore, puts me in the position to know the "feel" of what the app should be, so I am glad we operate a little different here, and wear so many hats. It's not just an economic decision, but I feel an effective one for the purity of a story.

I have designed the app icons (and much of the interactive UI design) for our Apps at Moonbot, and logo & icon design is something that really interests me. I thought it'd just be a little fun to share the 'final cut' of designs for the app icons considered for these two apps, "The NUMBERLYS" and "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore".